GC: Hermaphrodites in other animals show that sex, male and female, is man-made and a social construct that doesn't exist in other species

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[–]Not_a_celebrity[S] 1 insightful - 6 fun1 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 6 fun -  (5 children)

Do you understand what hypotheticals are? You can't even answer hypothetical questions? If sex, male and female, exists in mammals but not in non-mammal species, then sex is a social construct. We could sit here all day and come to the realization even "specie" and the difference between mammal and non-mammal is a social construct, some categories humans made up to make it easier for them to navigate through the world.

[–]MezozoicGaygay male 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If sex, male and female, exists in mammals but not in non-mammal species, then sex is a social construct.

No? A lot of things exist only in mammals (and few rare exception), like livebirth, for example. So pregnancy and birth now is a social construct and does not exist?

Second thing - sex exist in almost all species, even species that have hermaphrodites - are either one or another sex during reproduction. You still need an egg and a sperm to reproduce. And definition of sex is unified among all species, and covers them all, and it is real biological thing that can be very easily tested and proved, easily distinguished in 99.9% cases. Sex is a descriptor of a real world phenomena. You can't test social constructs, they are just social constructs, something created in a mind, not in physical world.

[–]loveSloaneDebate King 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Do you understand the part where I asked what point you think this makes?

I don’t think you do since you don’t seem to understand what mammals are or what sex is... maybe you should read up on both of those things before you come here. Maybe also look into the concept of social constructs because you seem utterly clueless. It’s impossible to take you or your post seriously after this comment lmao

Another suggestion: look up “logical conclusions”

[–]divingrightintowork 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

If humans aren't human are they human? If they're not human, what are they?

Hypothetically.

[–]loveSloaneDebate King 9 insightful - 7 fun9 insightful - 6 fun10 insightful - 7 fun -  (1 child)

Humans are a social construct /s

[–]divingrightintowork 7 insightful - 6 fun7 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

If Judith butler hasn't intellectually masturbated to it's nature does it even exist.